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wage. This is why I have cited the law of supply and demand. If there are simply not enough persons from the owner's own ethnocultural community available for the job, the owner, in order to survive , must employ someone of another ethnicity.
A similar pattern obtains in the businessperson/clientele relationship. If the retired senior citizen is too old to walk several blocks to the grocery store of his or her community and there is a convenience store next door that sells basic goods like soap and drinking water, the client will be inclined to shop there for non-ethnic products. If the owner of the ethnic store is losing business because of ethnic considerations, he will try and expand his clientele and his range of products. Along with the ethnic products, the owner may be obliged to sell products that will draw clientele from other communities. In the case of convenience and corner stores, the owners will sell what persons from any community are likely to need: snacks, drinks. tinned foods, household goods and lottery tickets.
The upshot of the foregoing is that market forces oblige ethnocultural groups to interact in the economic sphere because they are interdependent. A community may be able to survive as an ethnocultural group without intermingling with others, but it cannot sustain itself economically without contact with others. In itself this interdependence is not a sufficient guarantee of pluralism and toleration. I will show however in what way it is a necessary condition.
I turn again to the case of Latino immigrants because this example instantiates the argument thus far. On May 1, 2006, about half a million people took to the streets in Los Angeles as a part of a nation-wide rally under the banner
Object Description
| Title | Negotiating pluralism and tribalism in liberal democratic societies |
| Author | Sadagopan, Shoba |
| Author email | sadagopa@usc.edu; shobasadagopan@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Philosophy |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-08-22 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-10-15 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Lloyd, Sharon |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Dreher, John Keating, Gregory |
| Abstract | My aim in this dissertation is to enquire whether toleration as a practice is achievable. It is prior to the question of how it can be grounded as a virtue. I argue that in liberal democratic societies where there are struggles for recognition on the part of ethnocultural groups, it is possible to negotiate pluralism and tribalism in a way that a stable pluralist society can be maintained. My core thesis rests on a theory of interdependence based both on a theory of human nature and on the material fact of globalization. Insofar as we affirm our nature as human beings engaged in productive activity with other human beings, insofar as we value a world that facilitates that activity, toleration is desirable. It is achievable because with globalization there is a tendency towards homogenization that erodes cultural differences. There is less reason for conflict because what we have in common, our interdependence, goes far deeper than culture. A further sufficient condition may be found in well thought-out policies that are executed through education and dialogue. |
| Keyword | toleration; value pluralism; liberalism; cultural homogenization; globalization; common citizenship |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1658 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Sadagopan, Shoba |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Sadagopan-2395 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Sadagopan-2395.pdf |
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| Title | Page 88 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 85 wage. This is why I have cited the law of supply and demand. If there are simply not enough persons from the owner's own ethnocultural community available for the job, the owner, in order to survive , must employ someone of another ethnicity. A similar pattern obtains in the businessperson/clientele relationship. If the retired senior citizen is too old to walk several blocks to the grocery store of his or her community and there is a convenience store next door that sells basic goods like soap and drinking water, the client will be inclined to shop there for non-ethnic products. If the owner of the ethnic store is losing business because of ethnic considerations, he will try and expand his clientele and his range of products. Along with the ethnic products, the owner may be obliged to sell products that will draw clientele from other communities. In the case of convenience and corner stores, the owners will sell what persons from any community are likely to need: snacks, drinks. tinned foods, household goods and lottery tickets. The upshot of the foregoing is that market forces oblige ethnocultural groups to interact in the economic sphere because they are interdependent. A community may be able to survive as an ethnocultural group without intermingling with others, but it cannot sustain itself economically without contact with others. In itself this interdependence is not a sufficient guarantee of pluralism and toleration. I will show however in what way it is a necessary condition. I turn again to the case of Latino immigrants because this example instantiates the argument thus far. On May 1, 2006, about half a million people took to the streets in Los Angeles as a part of a nation-wide rally under the banner |
